As a pandemic-exhausted world celebrates the delayed 2020 Games, some Japanese citizens remain adamantly opposed. Macquarie University Japan specialist Dr Thomas Baudinette explains what’s behind their protests. After considerable delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
All individuals aged 18 years and above in greater Sydney, including adults under 60 years of age, should strongly consider getting vaccinated with any available vaccine including COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca. This is on the basis ...
In a press release, Minister for Health and Aged Care, Greg Hunt, applauds the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) decision to allow 12 to 15-year-olds to get vaccinated. Minister Greg Hunt’s statement: Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout ...
There has been one new locally acquired case of COVID-19 since July 21, 2021 according to SA Health. The case is a woman in her 20s who acquired her infection locally and is linked to ...
The results of a study by an international scientific team co-led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, suggest that — like pouring water atop a wellhead before pumping ...
A study by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators hints that people with COVID-19 may experience milder symptoms if certain cells of their immune systems “remember” previous encounters with seasonal coronaviruses — the ones that ...
Australian scientists researching how our immune system responds to COVID-19 have revealed that those infected by early variants in 2020 produced sustained antibodies, however, these antibodies are not as effective against contemporary variants of the ...
New data shows that less than one in five Australians living under disability care are vaccinated against COVID-19 more than four months since the rollout of the vaccine started. Rather than wait for commonwealth in-reach ...
An updated analysis of American COVID-19 deaths throughout 2020 reveals an even bigger drop in average lifespans as well as still substantial disparities by race and ethnicity. Lead author Theresa Andrasfay, a postdoctoral scholar at ...
The first evidence of a genetic link explaining why some people who catch Covid-19 don’t become sick has been discovered. A scientific and medical team led by Newcastle University, UK, has demonstrated that the gene, ...